PBS (November 29, 2024): Leonardo da Vinci believed extensive knowledge of human anatomy was essential to depicting the human form.
Since medical teachings were inadequate, he began a meticulous study of his own – and he didn’t stop at the surface. He also drew muscles, bones, and organs, and experimented with different techniques. He even studied ancient sources, which led to his famous depiction of The Vitruvian Man.
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Country Life Magazine (November 26, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Advent Calendar Special’…
Carla Passino is captivated by floral photographs that evoke 17th-century still-life paintings
She may be tiny, but Jenny wren certainly makes her presence felt, declares Mark Cocker
There’s more to myrrh than meets the eye, says Deborah Nicholls-Lee
Lucien de Guise is bowled over by the intoxicating concoctions mixed by Dickens and George IV
Neil Buttery tucks into the tale of the Yorkshire Christmas Pye
Pick out those perfect presents with a helping hand from Hetty Lintell and Amie Elizabeth White
The Royal Ballet dancer selects an inspiring, transformative work
The author’s Wessex is brought to life in Jeremy Musson’s words and Matthew Rice’s drawings
Deborah Nicholls-Lee is fascinated by fractals, the exquisite, ever-repeating patterns in Nature
John Lewis-Stempel urges us to rediscover our love of heathland, now a rarer habitat than rainforest
Andrew Green rounds up the animals in Dickens’s life and work
Jack Watkins explores the folklore and function of the lychgate
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From flying a Spitfire to sushi-making, the COUNTRY LIFE team puts gift experiences to the test
Kate Green reveals how Sir David Willcocks changed the sound of Christmas with Carols for Choirs
Hetty Lintell on saunas, socks, silk bows and precious stones
Neil Buttery sorts the pudding prick from the tongue press
Rob Crossan talks Tupperware
Melanie Johnson on cabbage
A black fox illuminates a dreary dawn for John Lewis-Stempel
Victoria Marston looks back at classic film posters
Matthew Dennison explores the tin-novations that made Huntley & Palmers a household name
Sarah Sands shares how choral singing shaped the life of her late brother Kit Hesketh-Harvey
Ian Morton investigates the real meanings of our nursery rhymes
Harry Pearson finds out why this is the year of the Northern Lights
Kennedy has many bad ideas. Yet the irony of our political moment is that his more reasonable positions are the ones that could sink his candidacy. By Dhruv Khullar
“The Golden Girls” reframed senior life as being about socializing and sex. But did the cultural narrative of advanced age as continued youth twist the dial too far? By Daniel Immerwahr
Air Company, a startup that has used water and carbon dioxide to make vodka and to power automobiles, taste-tests its product and discusses getting Elon Musk’s business. By Adam Iscoe
DW History and Culture (November 21, 2024): Discover the trailblazing spirit of Auguste Renoir, one of the founders of impressionism, whose canvases shattered centuries of artistic convention. In “Renoir – Portrait of Changing Times,” we see how Renoir took inspiration from the past, while transforming Parisian life undergoing societal change into timeless masterpieces.
Renoir’s impressionistic strokes capture the pulse of 1870s Paris, a city reeling from war and revolutionary change, whilst incorporating Rococo references. This documentary explores the genesis of Renoir’s vision, which melds tradition with the avant-garde. As his son later wrote, “Renoir loved fairy tales.
The everyday was like a fairy tale to him”. Like the fairytale world of Rococo Painting, Renoir’s impressionist works do not depict reality but create an alluring and beautiful fiction that still captures the imagination today.
Country Life Magazine (November 20, 2024): The latest issue features Winston Churchill – The wit and wisdom of the great man…
As we approach the 150th anniversary of Sir Winston Churchill’s birthday, Amie Elizabeth White and Octavia Pollock pay homage to the great man, in his own words.
In the second of two articles, John Goodall charts the 1560s and 1620s expansion of Apethorpe Palace in Northamptonshire
England’s heather moorland and its glorious purple swathe is a wonder of the Western world, suggest John Lewis-Stempel
Do you know a Yonerywander from a Vinvertuperator? Engage your inner Edward Lear as Daniel McKay welcomes you into his wacky world of whimwondery
Food, glorious food is fuelling the creativity of modern still-life artists discovers Catriona Gray
The sewing machine rose to be an emblem of domesticity, but its invention is a story of Saints and Singers. Matthew Dennison follows the thread
Raze to the ground or renovate? Has the open-plan layout had its day? Cart shed or garage? Giles Kime considers some key architectural conundrums
John Hoyland is captivated by the spectacular transformation of Piet Oudolf’s double borders at the RHS garden in Surrey
If you like your chili ‘hotter than the hinges of hell’, Tom Parker Bowles has just the dish for you (and there’s not a bean in sight)
John Goodall lauds a decade-long project to rescue a unique painted church at Ursi, Romania
Sudden glimpses of urban artistry. By Françoise MoulyArt by Javier Mariscal
The agency, known for listening, is getting into the (extremely vetted) talking game, with “No Such Podcast.”
Sotheby’s (November 17, 2024):In late September of 1925, Pablo Picasso, his wife Olga and their young son Paolo returned to Paris from their annual summer holiday in the South of France.
The summers were beginning to blend together for Picasso, who was tiring of the swell set he and Olga socialized with. The home they returned to at 23 rue la Boetie was a changed one. After lengthy negotiations, Picasso had acquired an additional floor of the building to be used as his studio.
He set about immediately modifying the space: removing doors from their hinges, bringing in his copious art supplies (and a limited amount of furniture) and stripping back most of the existing wallpaper. After years of jostling with his elegant and socially aspirational wife for space in their apartment on the floor below he relished a place to colonize as his own.
THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW (November 17, 2024): The latest issue features ‘Who’s Johnny?’…
Johnny Carson dominated late-night television for decades, but closely guarded his privacy. Bill Zehme’s biography, “Carson the Magnificent,” tries to break through.ent,’ by Bill Zehme
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